B29C 45/00
Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a
Official title: Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor (injection blow-moulding B29C49/06)
B29C45/00 (Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a) appears on 24,017 US grants and 23,693 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B29C 45/17Component parts, details or accessories13,017
- B29C 45/14Incorporating preformed parts or layers8,120
- B29C 45/16Making multilayered or multicoloured articles3,613
- B29C 45/0001Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a1,645
- B29C 45/0053Combined with a final operation1,454
- B29C 45/03Injection moulding apparatus1,147
- B29C 45/0025Preventing defects on the moulded article868
- B29C 45/0005Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a570
All 24 subgroupsShow fewer
- B29C 45/0046Details relating to the filling pattern or flow paths or flow characteristics508
- B29C 45/0013Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a501
- B29C 45/02Transfer moulding, i.e. transferring the required volume of moulding material by a467
- B29C 45/0081Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a277
- B29C 45/0017Moulding interconnected elements which are movable with respect to one another194
- B29C 45/0003Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a134
- B29C 2045/0093Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through aIndexing code105
- B29C 2045/0094Injection moulding of small-sized articlesIndexing code98
- B29C 45/0084General arrangement or lay-out of plants60
- B29C 2045/0098Shearing of the moulding materialIndexing code47
- B29C 2045/0091Pellets or granulesIndexing code45
- B29C 2045/0086Runner trees, i.e. several articles connected by a runnerIndexing code42
- B29C 2045/0089Successive filling of parts of a mould cavity, i.e. one cavity partIndexing code38
- B29C 2045/0087Making hollow articles using a floating core movable in the mould cavityIndexing code19
- B29C 45/0082Reciprocating the moulding material inside the mould cavity16
- B29C 2045/0096Drying the moulding material before injectionIndexing code14
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